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Leaving Cert students will have to answer fewer question in the written papers this year.

The Minister for Education has confirmed that the Leaving Certificate 2021 written, coursework, oral and practical performance examinations will be held and a corresponding process of grades accredited by State Examinations Commission will be available to students Following a Government decision today, Minister Norma Foley confirmed that Leaving Certificate 2021 examinations will proceed and students will also have the alternative option of applying for grades accredited by the State Examinatio...

Anyone who tries to lobby a teacher in the hope of achieving favourable grades for a Leaving Cert student this year will be breaking the law.

Leaving Certificate students will be able to indicate their exam choices under the twin-track approach to assessment being used this year, from Monday March 8.

The country’s 63,00 Leaving Cert students are crying out for certainty and want the choice between traditional exams and a form of ‘calculated grades’.

Talks between teacher trade unions and the Department of Education have been continuing today in an attempt to finalise plans for this year's Leaving Certificate.

There has been little expectation the Junior Cycle June exams would take place because of the public health landscape. There is a widespread view among education stakeholders that it would be too much to run both sets of exams together in June - on health and safety grounds. Each set of exams involves around 60,000 students and many schools would have several hundred candidates. Education Minister Norma Foley said the Junior Cycle exams would be on the table in the current discussions but they ...

Labour’s Aodhan O Riordain said any decision to send pupils back to the classroom needs to be taken in the wider context of Covid-19.

There is increasing doubt over the running of the Junior Cycle written exams in June, as difficult talks continue on finalising options for Leaving Cert students.

The Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) caused shock this week when it pulled out of talks on the Leaving Cert, 24 hours after rejecting a framework to underpin the phased reopening of schools. The union is no stranger to controversy, as a look back on some of its headline-grabbing moments reveals. Megaphone man ‘Megaphone man’ grabbed attention at the ASTI annual conference in 2014. PE teacher Andrew Phelan, currently a member of the union’s Standing Committee, used a loud ...